An oversight agency has filed a federal lawsuit against Kentucky’s Department of Juvenile Justice, alleging it is wrongly refusing to release records of two teenage boys it says experienced abuse and ...

A lawsuit has been filed against Snohomish County, alleging widespread child sexual abuse at two juvenile detention centers ...

Minors represented by Hagens Berman filed a lawsuit exposing alleged "systemic sexual abuse, rape and degradation," at two ...

When news broke earlier this year that 30 officers at a Los Padrinos juvenile detention facility were charged with facilitating gladiator fights between youth inmates, it evoked scenes straight out of ...

KY Protection and Advocacy says it’s entitled to records about alleged recent abuse of youths in state custody at Adair juvenile facility.

Fifteen Washington residents who were previously incarcerated at the Spokane County Juvenile Detention Center testified that they were sexually abused by detention center guards in a lawsuit ...

Filed Thursday, the complaint alleges sexual abuse of eight formerly incarcerated youths, which one attorney calls a ...